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3/5 Compromise
"The 'Three-fifths Compromise' allowed a state to count three fifths of each Black person in determining political representation in the House." (http://www.aaregistry.org/historic_events/view/three-fifths-compromise) -
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Slavery
The practice or system of owning slaves. -
Sambo
“Sambo is a term for a person with African heritage and, in some countries, also mixed with Native American heritage” -
Southern Fears Modernization
"According to the historian James M. McPherson, exceptionalism applied not to the South but to the North after the North ended slavery and launched an industrial revolution that led to urbanization, which in turn led to increased education, which in its own turn gave ever-increasing strength to various reform movements but especially abolitionism." (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origins_of_the_American_Civil_War#Southern_fears_of_modernization) -
Fugitive Slave Act
An act promoted by the United States Congress that guaranteed the right of a slaveholder to retrieve an escaped slave. -
Sectionalism
"Sectionalism is loyalty to the interests of one's own region or section of the country, rather than to the country as a whole." (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sectionalism) -
The Underground Railroad
"The Underground Railroad was a network of secret routes and safe houses used by 19th-century enslaved people of African descent in the United States in efforts to escape to free states and Canada with the aid of abolitionists and allies who were sympathetic to their cause." (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underground_Railroad) -
Missouri Compromise
"The Missouri Compromise was an effort by Congress to defuse the sectional and political rivalries triggered by the request of Missouri late in 1819 for admission as a state in which slavery would be permitted." (www.history.com/topics/missouri-compromise) -
Abolitionist Movement
Abolitionism is a movement to end slavery, whether formal or informal. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abolitionism) -
Nat Turner
He was a slave who led a slave rebellion which was responsible for 60 white deaths, after being caught he was hanged. -
Nullification Crisis
The Nullification Crisis was a sectional crisis that involved a confrontation between South Carolina and the Government. -
White Supremacy ("Slavery as a positive good")
John C. Calhoun in his speech tried to prove how slaves were better off than other lowers members of society (poor, sick, mentally ill, etc,). -
Popular Sovereignty
Popular Sovereignty is the principle that the government's authority is created and sustained by the consent of the citizens, through the elected individuals. -
Wilmot Proviso
The Wilmot Proviso was made to abolish slavery in the land acquired after the Mexican War. -
Harriet Tubman
A Nurse and Spy dedicated to abolishing slavery, participated in the Underground Railroad. -
Fugitive Slave Act
It required that all escaped slaves, once captured, to be returned to their original masters and that all citizens had to participate in this law. -
Cotton Gin
"A cotton gin is a machine that quickly and easily separates cotton fibers from their seeds, allowing for much greater productivity than manual cotton separation." (...) "The South became even more dependent on plantations and slavery, with plantation agriculture becoming the largest sector of the Southern economy." (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cotton_gin) -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
"Depicting the evils of slavery, it offered a vision of slavery that few in the nation had seen before. The book succeeded at its goal, which was to start a wave of anti-slavery sentiment across the nation. Upon meeting Stowe, President Lincoln remarked, 'So you’re the little woman who wrote the book that started this great war.' " (http://www.historynet.com/causes-of-the-civil-war) -
Solomon Northup
"A free-born African American from New York, he was the son of a freed slave and free woman of color. A farmer and violinist, Northup owned land in Hebron, New York. In 1841, he was offered a traveling musician's job and went to Washington, D.C. (where slavery was legal); there he was kidnapped, and sold as a slave. He was shipped to New Orleans, purchased by a planter, and held as a slave for 12 years in the Red River region of Louisiana, mostly in Avoyelles Parish." (http://tinyurl.com/oqzttd6 -
Kansas/Nebraska Act
An attempt of implementing Popular Sovereignty by Stephen Douglas. -
Ostend Manifesto
The Ostend Manifesto was a document written in 1854 that said that the United States would buy Cuba from Spain, and if Spain refused the United States would declare war on Spain. -
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Bleeding Kansas
"Bleeding Kansas (...) was a series of violent political confrontations in the United States involving anti-slavery Free-Staters and pro-slavery "Border Ruffian" elements, that took place in the Kansas Territory and the neighboring towns of the state of Missouri between 1854 and 1861." (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bleeding_Kansas) -
Dred Scott
"Scott claimed that he and his wife should be granted their freedom because they had lived in Illinois and the Wisconsin Territory for four years, where slavery was illegal. The United States Supreme Court decided 7–2 against Scott, finding that neither he nor any other person of African ancestry could claim citizenship in the United States, and therefore Scott could not bring suit in federal court under diversity of citizenship rules." (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dred_Scott) -
John Brown
Formed an army of Insurrectionists which provoked rebellions in 1858. -
Cotton is King
Senator James Henry Hammond took a position saying that if England wouldn't help the United States with manufacturing, they would stop providing cotton to England. It would be like going to war with cotton and no one goes to war with cotton because "Cotton is King". Which shows exactly how the economy ran on cotton. -
John Brown
Led the raid in Harpers Ferry, which was an attempt to start an armed slave revolt. -
Crittenden Compromise
A failed proposition by John J. Crittenden, which aimed to resolve the US Secession Crisis. -
The Election of Abraham Lincoln
People who opposed slavery created the Republican Party and Lincoln got elected as president in 1860, said he would not interfere with slavery where it existed. -
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Civil War
